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Devil's Day
- Author
- Andrew Michael Hurley
- Narrator
- Richard Burnip
- Publisher
- John Murray Press
- Publish Date
- 19 October 2017
- Run Time
- 10 hours 44 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
'The new master of menace' Sunday Times
A blizzard a century ago has passed into fable in the Endlands. Trapped by the snow, the residents of the valley found themselves at the mercy of the Devil, who brought death and destruction before being driven back to the moors.
Now, the three farming families of the Endlands face a new test. The patriarch of the community, the Gaffer, has died and his grandson, John Pentecost, must decide if he will return and work the land in his grandfather's stead. He feels the pull of duty, loyalty and tradition: obligations that his pregnant wife, Kat, finds hard to understand as an outsider. And as the celebrations of the Devil's exile draw near, she realises that there is a darkness in this place which cannot be repelled.
BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, FT, METRO AND MAIL ON SUNDAY
'A work of goose-flesh eeriness' The Spectator
Critics Review
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Hurley is a superb storyteller. He leads you up on to the moors, into the eye of a snowstorm, dropping little clues, sinister hints at devilment and demonic possession. Then he changes course, scuffs over the prints in the snow, springs new villainies on you, abandons you overnight in the hills
The Times
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The nebulous presence of the Devil is evoked so palpably in this novel that at times I hardly dared look up when reading for fear of seeing him grinning at me from the chair next to mine
Literary Review
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The new master of menace. This chilling follow-up to The Loney confirms its author as a writer to watch
Sunday Times
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Chilling and captivating; read at your peril
Stylist
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Beautifully captures a bleak landscape and the feeling of something evil and unknowable in the moors, the hills and the byways
Sunday Express
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Hurley is a fine writer, with concerns that place him a little to the left of the literary mainstream, a remove that makes him extremely interesting
Irish Times
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This impeccably written novel tightens like a clammy hand around your throat
Daily Mail
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This is a story with pull. Its lively, building sense of evil is thoroughly entangled with the assumptions of the way of life depicted, that apparently timeless relationship of the smallholder and the moor
Guardian
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Makes for impressively uncomfortable reading
TLS
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A gorgeously written novel that leaves the reader wondering and perturbed
Metro
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Devil's Day is evocative and unsettling, exploring the potency of tradition, place and allegiance in a brutal rural environment
Daily Express
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The follow up to The Loney deploys myth, landscape and the tropes of horror to chilling effect
FT
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Andrew Michael Hurley's The Loney was one of the surprise stand-outs of last year, and a worthy winner of the Costa First Novel Award. His new novel, Devil's Day is equally good . . . it is a work of goose-flesh eeriness . . . Hurley's work is like a reincarnation of novels such as John Buchan's Witch Wood or the stories of M.R. James. His prose is precise and his eye gimlet
The Spectator
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A master of flesh-creeping menace. Around macabre happenings in a remote farming community on the bleak moors of the Lancashire-Yorkshire border, he weaves a terror tale of human vulnerability. Hidden horrors surface. Eerie malevolence flickers. Nature's routine cruelties are caught with a fierce accuracy that Ted Hughes would have admired
Sunday Times, Books of the Year
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Andrew Michael Hurley is adept at making his readers' spines tingle
The Times, Books of the Year
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Hurley's first novel was The Loney, a prize-winning gothic triumph produced by a Yorkshire press, later picked up by John Murray. Devil's Day shares the same dark sense of foreboding . . . laced with menace
Financial Times, Books of the Year
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Expect pastoral lyricism - snowstorms sweeping in across an ancient landscape - spliced with gothic shivers
Mail on Sunday, Books of the Year
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The devil is everywhere in this deliciously creepy second novel from the author of The Loney . . . Andrew Michael Hurley combines the eerie power of folk memory with a much more modern manifestation of horror and the final pages are among the most unsettling you'll read this year
Metro, Books of the Year
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Details
- Author
- Andrew Michael Hurley
- Narrator
- Richard Burnip
- Duration
- 10 hours 44 minutes
- Release Date
- 19 October 2017
- ISBN
- 9781473655249
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- John Murray Press
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction, Fiction: literary and general non-genre
Synopsis
PRE-ORDER SALTWASH NOW: THE DISTURBING NEW NOVEL FROM ANDREW MICHAEL HURLEY'The new master of menace' Sunday TimesA blizzard a century ago has passed into fable in the Endlands. Trapped by the snow, the residents of the valley found themselves at the mercy of the Devil, who brought death and destruction before being driven back to the moors. Now, the three farming families of the Endlands face a new test. The patriarch of the community, the Gaffer, has died and his grandson, John Pentecost, must decide if he will return and work the land in his grandfather's stead. He feels the pull of duty, loyalty and tradition: obligations that his pregnant wife, Kat, finds hard to understand as an outsider. And as the celebrations of the Devil's exile draw near, she realises that there is a darkness in this place which cannot be repelled. BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, FT, METRO AND MAIL ON SUNDAY'A work of goose-flesh eeriness' The Spectator
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